Without Mbappé, PSG will have to reinvent itself before Bayern

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Kylian Mbappé could return to Marseille on February 26. ERIC GAILLARD / REUTERS

ANALYSE – Out for three weeks, Bondy’s crack will notably miss the first leg against the Bavarian club, in C1. Hard blow. One more for Paris.

«Doesn’t seem like a big deal“, said Christophe Galtier of the injury of Kylian Mbappé, Wednesday, after the victory in Montpellier (1-3). In the end, it still is. Enough to get Bondy’s crack off for three weeks. In any case, he suffers from alesion of the left thigh at the level of the femoral biceps“Which should, barring a miracle of medicine, deprive him of the first leg against Bayern Munich, on February 14, in Paris.

The bad luck does not let go of PSG, regularly deprived of at least one of its stars at the time of the knockout stages of the Champions League, often Neymar (2018, 2019 and 2021). At this stage of the competition, the bad luck also affected Marco Verratti (2016), Thiago Motta (2017) and even Mbappé, replacing on the return against Dortmund, in 2020. Cursed, again and again. And we’re only talking about 8ths here. Mbappé, for example, was reduced to the “Final 8” in Lisbon (2020) and was downright forfeited during the elimination against Manchester City two years ago, in the semi-finals, at the Etihad…

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